Quentin Tarantino is an award-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He is known for his stylish and violent movies. He rose to fame in the early 1990s for his unique directing method that relied heavily on dialogue. His screenplays are usually full of unforgettable lines and scenes. He has become a cult director around the world while achieving superstar status.
昆汀·塔伦蒂诺是一名屡获嘉奖的美国导演、编剧以及演员。他的电影独具风格，并因拍摄暴力电影而被人们所熟知。20世纪90年代，他的“人物对白”拍摄法使他声名大噪。他的剧本总会出现许多经典台词，经典场景。在成就巨星的同时，他也成为了一名风靡一时的当红导演。
Tarantino was born in Tennessee in 1963. He dropped out of high school when he was 15 to learn acting. He got a job in a video rental store and spent all day watching and analyzing films. He had long discussions about them with customers. For Tarantino, this proved to be an education in directing that he would bring to his own moviemaking.
1963年，塔伦蒂诺出生在田纳西州。15岁那年，塔伦蒂诺高中辍学，学习表演。他在一家录像租赁店工作，每天观看电影，对电影进行分析。与顾客展开长时间讨论。对于塔伦蒂诺来说，这样的经历教会了他如何导演，并最终拥有了自己的电影作品。
Tarantino met a movie producer at a Hollywood party who encouraged him to write a screenplay. In January 1992 ‘Reservoir Dogs' came out and Tarantino instantly became a cult legend. He then wrote the screenplays for the box-office hits ‘True Romance’ and ‘Natural Born Killers'. In 1994, Tarantino made his classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
在一次好莱坞派对上，塔伦蒂诺结识了一位电影制作人，他鼓励塔伦蒂诺创作剧本。1992年1月，《落水狗》上映，他立即成为了传奇偶像。之后，两部热门影片《真实的浪漫》《天生杀人狂》都是塔伦蒂诺的编剧。1994年，他编导了《低俗小说》，并获得戛纳电影节金棕榈最佳影片奖。
Tarantino made a few more films before writing and directing the ‘Kill Bill’ movies. These films combined the movie styles of Chinese martial arts, Japanese drama, spaghetti westerns and Italian horror. They confirmed him as one of Hollywood's elite directors. Tarantino once said: "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’”
在编导《杀死比尔》系列电影之前，塔伦蒂诺又制作了几部影片。这些影片结合了中国武打片、日本戏剧、意大利式西部片以及意大利恐怖片。这些电影作品成就了他好莱坞杰出导演的称号。塔伦蒂诺曾说：“当有人问我是不是电影学院毕业时，我说没有，我说我“毕业”于电影。”
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